A New York man is suing an Atlantic City casino, claiming he lost more than $29 million due to technical glitches in its online gambling application.
In the lawsuit filed Wednesday in state Superior Court in Middlesex County, Sam Antar accuses the defendants of fraud, racketeering and other violations.
Through the lawsuit, Antar claims that he was disconnected from online platforms several times, at times when he could have earned a lot of money.
His lawyer, Christopher Gramiccioni, added that his client had lost “easily hundreds of thousands of dollars” during that time.
“It’s one thing if you have intermittent technical problems,” said Gramiccioni, a former New Jersey district attorney.
The Borgata and MGM declined to comment through a spokesman.
Antar is the grandson of Eddie Antar, who founded Crazy Eddie electronics stores in the 1970s and 1980s, defrauding investors of more than $74 million. Eddie Antar died in 2016.
In 2013, Sam Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for taking $225,000 in a fraudulent investment scheme.
In his lawsuit, Antar alleges that he warned many employees and officials of the gaming companies that there was a serious, recurring problem with disconnections, but that they knowingly kept the non-working games available to the public because there were many.